Andrew Jackson Quotes

The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his Government, deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and friend to her foe.

It is maintained by some that the bank is a means of executing the constitutional power "to coin money and regulate the value thereof." Congress have established a mint to coin money and passed laws to regulate the value thereof. The money so coined, with its value so regulated, and such foreign coins as Congress may adopt are the only currency known to the Constitution. But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation. If the bank be established for that purpose, with a charter unalterable without its consent, Congress have parted with their power for a term of years, during which the Constitution is a dead letter. It is neither necessary nor proper to transfer its legislative power to such a bank, and therefore unconstitutional.

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining...and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away….

John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!

I have always been afraid of banks.

It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Oh, do not cry - be good children and we will all meet in heaven.

The decision of the Supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.